Michigan

I feel the calling of the land,
The trees and summer streams;
The thunderstorms and sun-drenched lakes,
The land of boyhood dreams.
 
The little town where someone’s dad
Owned every shop and store;
And every face you saw you knew
And welcomed at your door.
 
A forest full of mystery,
An undiscovered find
That flexed imagination
In an adolescent mind.
 
The place my seed was rooted
In fields where I once grew;
The home of every memory
Of everything once new.
 
Beneath the sea of motion,
Beneath the waves and foam,
I rest on its foundation -
Michigan is home.